To get to Western Rim, pick up the #2 trail, and follow that all the way out to the rim trail. The #2 rolls up and down short, steep hills. While mostly smooth, some technical sections do punctuate the singletrack with sharp rock ledges.

Once onto the Western Rim proper, the real fun begins! The singletrack gets narrower and a bit more technical, although overall this trail is very accessible to an intermediate rider. The track twists along the canyon rim, undulating up and down with a few entertaining rock gardens and slickrock slabs.

Undoubtedly the primary reason to ride this route is the views: the rim itself overlooks the Colorado River far below and provides expansive views of the river valley and the mountains in the distance. The rock rim itself is an impressive formation, exploding from the landscape below and forming a prominent bare rock ledge that runs for miles.

On the return trip, you have several choices. You can either return entirely on singletrack, making this an out-and-back. You can instead head up the dirt road from the end of the Western Rim trail and then pick up the #2 for the rest of the return (the lollipop loop mapped here). Or, for the speediest return, you can follow the dirt road the entire way back to camp.

For a longer route option, consider heading further west, and connecting to Zion Curtain, which is mapped separately.

However you slice it, the views on Western Rim are well-worth the effort!